St. Louis Rams Officially Moving Back to Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California has been without a football team now for over 20 years. But that is all about to change when one of their originals, the Rams, makes its way back to the nation's second largest city.
According to Deadline, the world's entertainment hub is poised to bring the team back following a vote today by NFL team owners, which came out favorably for the move 30 to 2.
There has been a lot of speculation and doubt about whether LA would ever get a football team back. But today pretty much sealed the deal, and the team is about to make its way back home.
The city once hosted two NFL teams, but they both left after the 1994 season leaving the city with no alternatives. Although professional baseball, hockey, soccer and basketball have been thriving there for quite some time, football has been a mysterious absence for fans within the city.
The Rams left for St. Louis the same year the Raiders left for Oakland. The mass hiatus of the professional football teams have left many power players in the city scrambling to bring the sport back with other avenues, but none of those efforts paid off.
So it finally took an estranged child of the city to say it wants to come home for the people to get their once beloved team back.
The vote would also give the San Diego Chargers the option to move to the city within a year, should they decide to leave their current home. That would essentially give the once football deprived city two different options to get back into the game.
The Rams former home, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, will be the returning home for the team, and the move will take effect starting with the 2016 season. They will then be moving to a new stadium in 2019, once construction is completed for them.
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